Church of the City New York

By Jon Tyson

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What's Church of the City New York about?

Welcome to the Church of the City Podcast.

Church of the City New York is a church community passionate about making disciples who "practice the way of Jesus together for the renewal of the city." We believe in the authority and power of the scriptures to shape our communal life and practice, as we seek to teach God's word with clarity and conviction.

Most of the teaching in our community is done by Pastor Jon Tyson and our teaching team. We have both morning and evening services and meet in the heart of Manhattan.

For more information visit: churchofthecitynyc.com

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Advent Devotional: Anna's P...

12.08.2023

Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and ...

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12.08.2023 Advent Devotional: Anna's Proclamation & Advent Hymn Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and ...
12.06.2023 Advent Devotional: Isaiah's Song & Come Up Here (Let Us Adore Him) Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and ...
12.04.2023 Resound (Advent 2023): Simeon's Song - Suzy Silk This week, Pastor Suzy Silk began our Advent series with a message from Luke 2:25-35, which recounts Simeon’s encounter with baby Jesus in the temple. Through his faithfulness to the Lord, despite so many years of waiting, Simeon was finally ...
12.04.2023 Advent Devotional: Simeon’s Song & O Come O Come Emmanuel Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and ...
11.27.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Reaching People with the Gospel - Tim Brown This Sunday, Pastor Tim Brown closed out our Compelling Missional Disciples series with a teaching on Jesus’ missional call to believers to share the Gospel with all people. Evangelism is often misunderstood and neglected in the Western church, but the ...
11.20.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Missional Work - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson followed up on last week's sermon on cultural renewal with a part two on the theology of work and calling, reminding us that a call to redemptive work is part of our God-given identity. When ...
11.13.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Cultural Renewal - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series by surveying the current cultural landscape, and pointing us to the Biblical mandate God has given us to create and steward a culture that glorifies Him. As the only ...
11.06.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Crystallization of Discontent - Keithen Schwahn This Sunday, Pastor Keithen Schwahn continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series by unpacking the pessimism and passivity that has invaded the American church and tend to drive its view on the next generation. As we continue to develop as compelling ...
10.30.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Filling Formational Gaps - Jon Tyson This week, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our sermon series on Compelling Missional Disciples with a teaching on how to become fully trained. As maturing disciples, our goal is to become like Jesus, our master, unwilling to settle for anything less ...
10.23.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Intentional Formation - Jon Tyson This week, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series with a teaching on the importance of being intentional in our formation. By asking who we are becoming by what we are doing, committing to go to the depths ...
10.16.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Identity Formation - Ashley Anderson This week, Pastor Ashley Anderson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples sermon series with a message on the role of identity formation in becoming a compelling missional disciple. We must consider what we have falsely believed about ourselves, and then ask ...
10.09.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: God's Presence is Everything - Darren Rouanzoin This Sunday, guest teacher, Pastor Darren Rouanzoin, continued our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, focusing on one major point: God’s presence is everything. As followers of Jesus, we are called to seek the things of the Kingdom instead of ...
10.04.2023 Church of the City New York Announcements - Jon Tyson In place of this week's podcast we have a few special announcements from Pastor Jon. We are looking for people to join our team! Visit church.nyc/staff to read descriptions and apply. Sanctuary is an original song, written within our community, ...
09.25.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: The Knowledge of God - Sam Gibson This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, with a teaching on the importance of devotedly pursuing the knowledge of God, because having a proper view of God will determine everything else in our lives. The ...
09.18.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Living An Attentive Life - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, with a teaching on living a life that is attentive to the presence of God through the story of Mary and Martha. Being attentive to the presence of ...
09.11.2023 Compelling Missional Disciples: Overview - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon kicked off our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, with an overview of Church of the City’s vision for discipleship. As a church community, we must resolve to close the gap between what we are experiencing ...
09.04.2023 Rediscovering Church: The Commitment - Sam Gibson This Sunday, Pastor Sam Gibson finished out our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching from 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 on Jesus and His Church. As we look to and learn from the early church, we must be careful not to elevate ...
08.28.2023 Rediscovering Church: Between the Resurrection and the Return - Matt Ro This Sunday, Pastor Matt Ro continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching on how we ought to live between Jesus’ resurrection and His promised return. The reality of His return is imminent, and should be both the anchor and ...
08.21.2023 Rediscovering Church: Sexual Formation in the Way of Jesus - Jon Tyson This week, Pastor Jon continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching out of 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 on sexual formation in the way of Jesus. The stories that the world sells about sexuality lead to disillusionment, disappointment, and fear. They ...
08.14.2023 Sowing for Awakening - David Thomas This weekend, guest teacher David Thomas joined us to share a word on sowing for awakening through travailing prayer. David shares in our desire to see the fame and deeds of God renewed and known in our time, and was ...
08.07.2023 Rediscovering Church: Letter From the Persecuted Church - Ashley Anderson This Sunday, Pastor Ashley continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching on Christian persecution and the appropriate response of the Western Church. While it may appear that persecution is a burden of the past that only the early Church ...
07.31.2023 Rediscovering Church: Strengthen and Encourage - Sam Gibson This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching on Paul’s encouragement to the Thessalonians about suffering well. At this time, the Thessalonians were undergoing severe suffering for their beliefs, and Paul knew the importance of having ...
07.24.2023 Rediscovering Church: The Word of God - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy continued our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching on the importance of understanding and receiving “the word of God” in all its forms; the Scriptures, the person of Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and the Gospel message. ...
07.17.2023 Rediscovering Church: Restoring Leadership Credibility to a Scandalized Church - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued the “Rediscovering Church” series, teaching on restoring leadership credibility to a scandalized church with 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 and laying out a guide for Godly leadership rooted in Jesus centered motives, methods, and mission.
07.10.2023 Rediscovering Church: The Model Church - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy continued our sermon series, Rediscovering Church, with an exploration of the Thessalonians as the model church: what set them apart, what sustained them, and how we can learn from their example to bear fruit that lasts ...
07.03.2023 Rediscovering Church: The Invitation - Keithen Schwahn This Sunday, Pastor Keithen Schwahn kicked off our Summer sermon series, Rediscovering Church, a study through 1 Thessalonians, with an overview of the book and an invitation to the church. As the leader of our growing Youth and College ministries, ...
06.26.2023 We Want You Here: Consecration in a Time of Compromise - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon closed out our “We Want You Here” series with a call to consecration. In a time of theological compromise and the normalization of godlessness, God is calling us to devote ourselves to a Person, to a ...
06.19.2023 We Want You Here: The God Who Seeks and Saves - Ashley Anderson This Sunday, Pastor Ashley Anderson continued our “We Want You Here” series with a message on joining God on His mission to seek and save the lost through prayer. As God’s image bearers, Jesus declared that every person has incredible ...
06.12.2023 Compassion Sunday - Jon Tyson This Sunday, we were joined by Compassion International, and Pastor Jon preached a special sermon on Biblical justice. When we love someone, we want to delight them, and this is what delights God: steadfast love, righteousness, and justice (Jeremiah 9:23-24). ...
06.05.2023 We Want You Here: Joining the Chorus - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy continued our series “We Want You Here” with a teaching on joining in creation’s chorus of praise through Psalm 148. Today, we are invited to join the chorus of praise that is happening right now in ...
05.29.2023 We Want You Here: Praying Through Tears - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our “We Want You Here” series with a teaching on prayer through tears. Our world is a fallen place, and it has become the cultural norm to be cynical and numb to the pain, injustice, ...
05.22.2023 We Want You Here: How We Fight Our Battles - Ralph Castillo This Sunday, Pastor Ralph Castillo continued our “We Want You Here” series with his sermon, “This is How We Fight Our Battles.” Learning from the story of the Israelites’ victory over the Amalekites in Exodus, we observe three key ways ...
05.08.2023 We Want You Here: Resisting Temptation - Jon Tyson Pastor Jon continued our current sermon series 'We Want You Here' with a deep dive into our human struggle with temptation. As we resist temptation and actively confess by bringing things into the light, shame melts away under the power ...
05.01.2023 We Want You Here: Prayer, Grief, & Lament - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy continued our "We Want You Here" series by discussing prayer, grief, and lament through the prayer of the prophet Habakkuk. We join God in the restoration of the world when we enter into the brokenness in ...
04.24.2023 We Want You Here: Praying The Word - Sam Gibson This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our "We Want You Here" sermon series by encouraging us to spend time in the Bible and pray Scripture back to God to move us toward a confident assurance about His character. We are able ...
04.18.2023 We Want You Here: Growing in Love - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon kicked off our Eastertide sermon series, "We Want You Here," with a discussion of how we can grow in love. He broke down the four stages of Christian love described by medieval theologian Bernard of Clairvaux, ...
04.10.2023 Easter Sunday 2023 - Jon Tyson This Easter Sunday, Pastor Jon preached on how the resurrection of Jesus proves that death is not the end. Ultimately, the resurrection is the most credible, surprising explanation for what happened to Jesus and the resulting spread of Christianity, and ...
04.03.2023 God Comes Where He’s Wanted 2.0: Palm Sunday - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy closed out our series, “God Comes Where He’s Wanted 2.0” by teaching on the collision of kingdoms Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday caused in the hearts of all who gathered to welcome Him. As ...
03.27.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Forgiveness - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued the "God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0" series by teaching on the Lord's Prayer, focusing on the context of forgiveness it is presented in, reminding us that a life of forgiveness is an absolute necessity ...
03.20.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: The Lord's Prayer - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued the "God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0" series through teaching on the Lord's Prayer - our "secret weapon" in the faith. Over time, Western Christianity has trivialized the Lord's Prayer, diminishing its true value and ...
03.13.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Ask, Seek, Knock - Ashley Anderson This Sunday, Pastor Ashley continued our "God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0" series by taking a closer look at Luke 11 where Jesus exhorts us to ask, seek, and knock. Prayer has less to do with technique, and more to ...
03.06.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Asking for a Friend - Suzy Silk This Sunday, Pastor Suzy continued our “God Comes Where He’s Wanted 2.0” series by taking a closer look at how Jesus calls us to pray in Luke 11. After He prays the Lord’s prayer as a model, Jesus teaches that ...
02.27.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Cultivating Revival - Jon Tyson This Sunday, fueled by the urgent movement of God at Asbury University and elsewhere, Pastor Jon dug into the spiritual roots of revival as part of our extended series, “God Comes Where He’s Wanted.” Pointing to King Josiah’s story from ...
02.20.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted 2.0: Asbury Outpouring - Jon Tyson This Sunday, Pastor Jon taught from his reflections on his time at Asbury University last week. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Asbury is a clue that God is doing something, and He is asking us to pay attention. ...
02.13.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted: The Cry of the Lord - Suzy Silk In our final week of ‘God Comes Where He’s Wanted’ Pastor Suzy emphasized the importance of understanding God’s cry for our vital consecration and purity, as we desire and call upon our Holy God in our hearts, homes, church, and ...
02.08.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted: The Cry of the Region - Sam Gibson This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our teaching series, “God Comes Where He’s Wanted” by unpacking the cry for the region through Isaiah 64. He offered three invitations to help us move from complacency, to concern, to crying our for God ...
01.30.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted: The Cry of the Church - Lee Cummings This Sunday, guest Pastor Lee Cummings continued our teaching series, “God Comes Where He’s Wanted” by teaching on the importance of building altars through our lives. Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God allows His people to be ...
01.29.2023 Elder Installment Sunday was a historic day in the life of Church of the City as we installed the men and women of our first Elder Cohort as official Elders in our church. After a year long process, the Elders were commissioned ...
01.23.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted: The Cry of the Home - Jon Tyson This Sunday Pastor Jon Tyson continued our teaching series “God Comes Where He’s Wanted” with a teaching on cultivating the cry of our homes. Whether we are parents, married, or single, we can make the cry of our homes, “God ...
01.16.2023 God Comes Where He's Wanted: The Cry of the Heart - Jon Tyson This Sunday Pastor Jon Tyson continued our teaching series “God Comes Where He’s Wanted” by diving into the practice of cultivating our hearts in such a way that they would be a place God delights to dwell. Our Living the ...

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